A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.
If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.
Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.